I’m So Normal

Hi! Im Lily (she/her) and I can totally be normal! Ao3: Im_being_so_normal_about_this Current (and forever) obsession: Slow Horses!!!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

i promised i would drown myself

Word count: 7k

River has always known there was something wrong with him. Something rotten deep down that he doesn't look at, doesn't touch. It's easy enough to ignore, until it isn't. OR Training tests River's mind, body, spirit– and forces him to face his biggest fear: himself.

{Paintings: Ferry Slip (1904-06), Rocky Cliffs by the Sea (1916), Night Windows (1928) all by Edward Hopper}

[im-being-so-normal-about-this]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Slow Horses (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb Characters: River Cartwright, James "Spider" Webb Additional Tags: Songfic, Canon Compliant Series: Part 1 of The Great Divide Summary:

Whoa, everythin’ you see out here will die Oh, it’s a matter of time ‘til it’s Fields of ice and reflector lights ‘Til it’s our town

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☀️June fic roundup🌞

in the end we're all the same  ch6 by billynsteve

Surf Dreams by @im-being-so-normal-about-this

⭐️Psychos, Losers and Idiot Whores by @just-claude

⭐️glass half empty by @nbcreates29

⭐️💧Painter, Piper, Prisoner, Pawn ch19 by @cakebatteronabrickwall

Purgatory ch1 by @gingeragenda and @admirably-abhorrent

⭐️💧It wont be like this all the time ch6 by @lastjanuary

Until You Get to the Sea by @tenderlywicked

and of course (cam)bridge of spies by me and @just-claude

[im-being-so-normal-about-this]

Shaking ass to Graceland by Paul Simon

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

FIVE

who said it?? 1) pres. campaign manager james carville, 2) us rep. nancy mace, 3) us rep. scott desjarlais, 4) TX gov. greg abbott, 5) nyc mayor david dinkins, 6) speaker of the house newt gingrich, 7) trump, 8) senator bob packwood, 9) secretary of defense robert mcnamara, 10) VT state rep. mary morrissey, 11) army chief of staff creighton abrams, 12) presidential advisor elon musk, 13) us rep. liz cheney, 14) senator lindsey graham, 15) lobbyist roger stone, 16) trump, 17) nyc mayor eric adams, 18) vp mike pence, 19) speaker of the house paul ryan, 20) lobbyist phyllis schlafly, 21) senator tom harkin, 22) denver mayor michael hancock, 23) us rep. michele bachmann, 24) newt, 25) trump, 26) attorney general bill barr, 27) secretary of state condoleezza rice, 28) pres. joe biden, 29) newt, 30) gop pres. candidate herman cain

[inmyvampireempire]

I love tumblr because somehow I can end up being mutuals with a celebrity (someone that wrote a fic that I loved)

[im-being-so-normal-about-this]

Tagged by @hr-twink (thanks so much!) to shuffle my on-repeat playlist and post the first 10 songs!

End of August - Noah Kahan

Graceland - Paul Simon

Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

All Them Horses - Noah Kahan

Ventura Highway - America, George Martin

Kokomo - The Beach Boys

We Go Way Back - Noah Kahan

Orbiter - Noah Kahan

Sedona - Houndmouth

Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) - Jim Croce

Tagging: Anyone who wants to participate!

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

pt. 3

who said that??? from top, bolded those currently in office: 1) us rep. madison cawthorn, 2) pres. lyndon b. johnson, 3) nyc mayor michael bloomberg, 4) trump, 5) trump, 6) supreme court justice stephen breyer, 7) nyc mayor eric adams, 8) secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, 9) us rep. hank johnson, 10) white house staffer g. gordon liddy, 11) eric adams, 12) trump, 13) walton ky mayor gabe brown, 14) chicago mayor's office chief of staff christine beatty, 15) dc mayor marion berry, 16) republican pres. candidate hermain cain, 17) denver mayor michael hancock, 18) vp dan quayle, 19) pres. richard nixon, 20) mooresville nc mayor chris carney, 21) pres. dubya, 22) secretary of housing ben carson, 23) us rep. michele bachmann, 24) trump, 25) hudson oh mayor craig shubert, 26-27) gov. chris christie

[gayriver]

(spider's) kink is karma 🫶

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Slow Horses (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb Characters: River Cartwright, James "Spider" Webb Additional Tags: Fluff, not realistic, Not Canon Compliant Summary:

No, the mission didn’t matter much at all, not when the face of a dead man was staring back at him, whole and hale and alive, and River felt like he could breathe for the first time in recent memory.

or:

A dream of River’s.

[girlbossvicvega]

s5 lamb and river dynamic gives me much to think about. I don’t think lamb pities river or is particularly self-introspective, but I do have to think s4 threw him for a loop subconsciously or more than he lets on. imagine being in his shoes for a second like okay I have been trying to get my delusional shithead employee to leave for forever, I never wanted him to join my workplace, I wish he would just fuck off. he’s an annoying nepo baby who I only still have to deal with because of his grandfather, and I hate his fucking grandfather. what’s that. oh you said if my stupid employee didn’t end up in this job where he works for me he would’ve been raised a child soldier in a death cult led by his father. oh and now im hearing his grandfather went against the best interests of the service, the only time I have ever heard of his grandfather doing something like this, and it was to buy him and his mother from his father. but his mother didn’t want him or might’ve brought him back to his cult leader father she was groomed by so his grandfather got him instead. that’s why his grandfather could fill his head with all that bullshit about what we do. my stupid idiot employee i’ve hated for being a nepo baby was essentially groomed into this life I willingly entered and grew to despise. okay. cool. and now his grandfather, this man who controlled me and made me do awful things I regret is losing his mind so I’ll never be able to get any kind of resolution from him. and I can’t even hurt him anymore even though I have the upper hand now because he won’t even fucking understand it anyway. however, i must not forget the most important thing here: my stupid idiot employee still fucking sucks at his job. a paint pot you say

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

misattributed quotes, us politics edition:

who actually said it? in order from top: rfk jr, dick cheney, ben carson, lindsay graham, joe biden, ted kennedy, michael cohen, trump, bush 1, eric adams, eric adams again, antonin scalia, gary johnson, ben carson again, trump again

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Had a conversation with @m0d3rnvamp1r3izm and had to make these...

Inspiration under the cut for anyone who hasn't seen it

[lorquiana]

tfw your coworker can't take a hint (it will come back - hozier)

[sneakysnek1123]

My friend is reading skulduggery pleasant and his favourite characters are ghastly bespoke and erskine ravel

[m0d3rnvamp1r3izm]

Every song can be cartwebb coded if u think hard enough..